Professor Michael Coppedge – University of Notre Dame and Principal investigator on the Varieties of Democracy (V-Dem) project

Professor Aaron Erlich – McGill University

Mike Morden, Research Director at Samara Canada

This event is co-sponsored by the Centre for the Study of Democratic Citizenship, the McGill Institute for the Study of Canada, the Groupe de recherche sur le fonctionnement de la démocratie as well as the Government of Canada.